Improvement in watch-chain fasteners



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Improvement in Watch Chain Fastners.

No. 122,940, v I Patentedlamz's, 1872.

ATENT ()FFIGE.

WILLIAM 0. EDGE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Specificatiouforming part of Letters Patent No. 122,940, dated January 23, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM U. EDGE, of Newark, in thecounty of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in VVatch-Chain Fasteners; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description. thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this speciiication.

Figure 1 represents a face VlBW of my inven tion. Fig. 2 is a back View of the same. Fig. 3 is an end View, partly in section, of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

I design by my invention to provide for use of the public a superior fastening for watchchains or guards; one that shall. be easy of attachment to and removal from the button-hole of a rest or Waistcoat and yet not liable to accidental detachment and one forming an ornamental termination or appendage of the watchguard, the means of fastening not being visible exteriorly.

A in the drawing represents an Sshaped or double hook, whose outer sections or arms, a

b, are about half the length of the main inner section 0. This hook is fastened to a curved bar secured in the under or flanged side of a button, B, which is ornamented on its top. The loop (I, for connecting the watch-guard to the button, is swiveled to thehook A, as clear- 1y shown in Fig. 3. The hook is applied by first fitting the end a through the button hole or eyelet in the garment, then, by reversing the motion, carrying the central section 0, and, finally, the inner end I) through the same. A secure fastening of the stud, button, or chain, to the garment is thus obtained.

This invention does away with the necessity of using the short end of common chains now required in connection with the ordinary bar.

I do not claim a button provided with an S shaped or other curved hook but The improved watchguard fastener, consisting of the S-shaped hook A (Lb 0, loop 61, swiv; eled thereto, and the flanged button B, secured together, as shown and described.

WILLIAM CHARLES EDGE.

Witnesses GEo. W. MABEE, T. B. MOSHEB. 

